First Entry: CSHL. 11/2/08

You know, it is going to be tough to try and write this. A lot of the things i am most passionate about, and most of the things i like to write about, are not the type of things that one would post on the internet. But hey, lets see what i can do. Anytime i can display my mostly random thoughts, and informal diction (you will never see me capitalize i in the middle of a sentence, and i just said you, ha, take that high school curriculum-based writing), for the public, then i guess i have nothing to worry or complain about. 

i kind of hate the CSHL. The Central States Hockey League, more like the Crap Shoot Hockey League. The way you advance in this game makes zero sense, i mean in sports like football, baseball, and basketball, you play in some sort of league until you get to high school, then you play in high school, if you're good, you go to college. Simple. Now lets try to figure out how you can advance in hockey. Everyone that moves on has played travel hockey when they were young, that part is obvious, but then when you get into high school is when it becomes complicated. If you go to a high school with a prestigious hockey program, preferably in Minnesota or Michigan, then you play high school; however, if you don't, then you have to find a AAA program to play for. So thus far it doesn't seem to complicated, AAA or high school, sounds easy. But then high school is over, now what? Great Q. Something I still don't know the answer too. How many other sports, can you play on one of the worst teams in the league, and still believe that you will advance further then 95% percent of all the other players in the league? None. This game is one of a kind. 

I mean its disgusting sometimes, I'll sit on the bench, and watch 20 year olds think they're hard by attacking and cheap shotting kids barely old enough to drive. I mean its like dude, while you're sitting at home counting down the days until you can get wasted legally, the kid you just cheap shotted is getting driven home by his parents. I understand some of these kids who are twenty years old and just have nothing better to do, but like when an entire team consists of 20 of those kids. Now you are just disgracing the game. The CSHL shouldn't be about winning, obviously we all want to win, but the league is supposed to be a stepping stone to greater things. When a younger kid gets hurt by almost a legal man, and ruins his career, somethings gotta give. 

I love the game. I love the blood, the talk, the celebrations, the assists, the garbage goals, the ESPN goals, the big hits, the finished checks, the fights, i love it all. Its just the fact that there are teams and kids out there disgracing the game that bothers me. Kids that play with no respect or love for the game. Literally makes me sick to my stomach. Knowing that the one thing i am trying to use to get myself into college for free, is the same thing you are taking for granted. 

So yes the Cherokee and the Thunderbirds may rise atop the CSHL, but in the long run of life, the Chiefs will be on top, because we are doing things the right way, not the easy way.